How to relieve liver damage caused by drugs

In fact, there are many drugs now that will damage your liver function after taking them, which will make it impossible for your liver to excrete toxins normally. Therefore, it is easy to cause many diseases, the most important of which are liver diseases. So people must read the instructions carefully before taking some drugs. If the drugs may damage the liver, try not to use them. If you have to use them, you must do so under the guidance of a doctor. This can avoid many situations. If your liver has been damaged, you need to take relevant measures to treat and relieve the symptoms to prevent more serious phenomena.

Disease treatment

Treatment principles include immediate discontinuation of related or suspected drugs (key to treatment), promoting the clearance of liver-damaging drugs and applying antidotes, applying hepatocellular protective agents, and treating liver failure.

⑴ Stop medication immediately: Once it is confirmed or suspected that the condition is drug-related, all suspected liver-damaging drugs should be discontinued immediately. Most cases can recover after stopping the medication.

⑵Supportive treatment:

① Pay attention to rest. Severe patients should absolutely stay in bed and rest.

② Supplement sufficient calories, sufficient protein, and multiple vitamins such as vitamin C, E, B, etc. to facilitate liver cell repair and regeneration.

⑶ Detoxification treatment: Patients with acute poisoning can take measures such as gastric lavage, catharsis, activated carbon adsorption to eliminate gastrointestinal residual drugs, and use hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, hemoperfusion, plasma exchange and other methods to quickly remove drugs from the body; Application of antidotes: including non-specific such as glutathione, N-acetylcysteine, sodium thiosulfate, steroid hormones, UDCA

, S-adenosylmethionine, polyene phosphatidylcholine, etc. and specific chelating agents such as dimercaprol, penicillamine, thiosuccinic acid, cysteamine, calcium sodium edetate, etc.

(4) Anti-inflammatory and liver-protective treatment: Anti-inflammatory and liver-protective drugs can be appropriately selected according to the patient's clinical condition, including glycyrrhizic acid preparations, silymarin, tiopronin, reduced glutathione, N-acetylcysteine, and polyene phosphatidylcholine, which are mainly used to protect liver cell membranes.

(5) Promote liver cell metabolism : adenosine methionine, glucuronide, complex coenzyme, potassium magnesium aspartate, hepatocyte growth factor that promotes liver cell repair and regeneration, adenosine methionine that promotes bilirubin and bile acid metabolism, potassium magnesium aspartate, ursodeoxycholic acid, etc. Some Chinese medicine preparations such as Huganning, Hugan Tablets, Bicyclol, and Wuzhi Capsules can also be chosen. For patients with severe symptoms and severe jaundice, short-term treatment with glucocorticoids can be used if there are no contraindications. In principle, medication should be kept as simple as possible.